Matheace Ramaputra

Oct 6, 2023 | moderndiplomacy.eu | Matheace Ramaputra |Waqas Jan |Bejoy Sebastian

Several countries overlooking the South China Sea, specifically China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Brunei, are disputing sovereignty over areas and part of it, but tensions in that region have escalated recently, due to American interventions, especially in the South China Sea, under the pretext of protecting its regional allies, such as Japan and South Korea and Philippines.

Oct 2, 2023 | moderndiplomacy.eu | Waqas Jan |Bejoy Sebastian |Khansa Alya Dalilah |Matheace Ramaputra

After the European Union, ASEAN (Association of the Southeast Asian Nations) is fast becoming a complete and holistic political and economic union, its most recent consensus on trade facilitation through custom clearance where all 10 ASEAN member states (AMS), signed the Mutual Recognition Arrangement (MRA) of their respective Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) Programmes. The ASEAN AEO MRA (AAMRA) is a step towards the ASEAN 2025 vision, to make the ASEAN economy well integrated and much bigger.